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Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham continue their conversation with MySQL expert Perside Foster, with a closer look at MySQL Enterprise Backup. They cover essential features like incremental backups for quick recovery, encryption for data security, and monitoring with MySQL Enterprise Monitor—all to help you manage backups smoothly and securely. MySQL 8.4 Essentials: https://mylearn.oracle.com/ou/course/mysql-84-essentials/141332/226362 Oracle University Learning Community: https://education.oracle.com/ou-community LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/oracle-university/ X: https://x.com/Oracle_Edu Special thanks to Arijit Ghosh, David Wright, Kris-Ann Nansen, Radhika Banka, and the OU Studio Team for helping us create this episode. -------------------------------------------------------- Episode Transcript:

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Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast, the first stop on your cloud journey. During this series of informative podcasts, we'll bring you foundational training on the most popular Oracle technologies. Let's get started!

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Nikita: Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast! I'm Nikita Abraham, Team Lead: Editorial Services with Oracle University, and with me is Lois Houston, Director of Innovation Programs.

Lois: Hi there! Last week was the first of a two-part episode covering the different types of backups and why they're important. Today, we'll look at how we can use MySQL Enterprise Backup for efficient and consistent backups.

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Nikita: And of course, we've got Perside Foster with us again to walk us through all the details. Perside, could you give us an overview of MySQL Enterprise Backup?

Perside: MySQL Enterprise Backup is a form of physical backup at its core, so it's much faster for large data sets than logical backups, such as the most commonly used MySQL Dump. Because it backs up the data files, it's non-locking and enables either complete system backup or partial backup, focusing only on specific databases.

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Lois: And what are the benefits of using MySQL Enterprise Backup?

Perside: You can back up to local storage or direct-to-common-cloud storage types. You can perform incremental backups, which can speed up your backup process greatly. Incremental backups enable point-in-time recovery. It's useful when you need to restore to a point in time before some application or human error occurred. Backups can be compressed to save archival storage requirements and encrypted for regulatory compliance and offline data security.

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Nikita: So we know MySQL Enterprise Backup is an impressive tool, but could you talk more about some of the main features it supports for creating and managing backups? Specifically, which tools are integrated within MySQL Enterprise to support different backup scenarios?

Perside: MySQL Enterprise Backup supports SBT, implemented by many common Tape storage systems. MySQL Enterprise Backup supports optimistic backup. This process deals with busy tables separately from the rest of the database. It can record changes that happen in the database during the backup for consistency. In a large data set, this can make a huge difference in performance.

MySQL Enterprise Backup runs on all supported platforms. It's available when you have a MySQL Enterprise Edition license. And it comes with Enterprise Edition, but it also is available as a separate package. You can get the most recent version from eDelivery, where you can also g